CSM Certification Training

A Scrum Master is a Servant Leader, who provides guidance to the team and product owner as well as ensures all practices are followed by team members. The Scrum master removes impediments, addresses all facets of the agile development process and also serves the Organization, product owner, team, and individuals. The Scrum master facilitates planning and helps product owners understand and adhere to scrum techniques and practices. The Scrum master provides guidance, coaching, support and facilitation and helps remove any obstacles that teams may encounter along the way. The Scrum master supports individual efforts, addresses issues that arise and removes obstacles to help individuals be focused and productive.

No, Scrum Alliance believes that understanding Scrum requires a greater level of in-person face to face interactions that cannot be delivered in a virtual environment, therefore classroom presence is mandatory.

On completion of the 2 day CSM course, you will receive an email from Scrum Alliance with a link to create your login credentials. Then you can Sign in to gain access to the Online CSM Test. Once the test is complete, you will be asked to accept a license agreement. You will then receive the official designation of Certified Scrum Master® (CSM) from Scrum Alliance alongwith a two-year membership with Scrum Alliance.

By attaining a CSM Certification you:

• Will gain an understanding of the Scrum framework, including team roles, activities and artifacts.
• Expand your career horizon in adopting Agile and Scrum practices in various organizations.
• Demonstrate your Scrum knowledge along with Certification.
• Understand the concepts to practice in Organization and also learn best practices from Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs)

The candidate will also get a 2 year membership with Scrum Alliance(The advantages of this membership can be viewed from the above questions).

The membership gives you access to discounts on Scrum Alliance gatherings and additional member-only resources with Scrum Alliance. You can join local user groups, online social networks and in addition CSMs can use a specially designed logo by Scrum Alliance, to highlight their credentials.

The test can be taken from anywhere with the help of a computer with an internet connection. It consists of 50 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 60 minutes ( pausing the exam is not possible). There must be atleast 37 correctly answered questions to obtain the passing percentage i.e. 74%.

After completing your CSM workshop, you will receive an email from Scrum Alliance that includes a link to create your login credentials. After receiving your membership email, you have 90 days to take the test. You will have two attempts within 90 days .After two attempts or 90 days, you will be charged $25 for each additional attempt.

• Scrum and Agile (6%): Agile Manifesto,Agile 12 principles, Scrum and relationship of Agile and Scrum.
• Scrum Theory (6%): Empirical Processes, 3 pillars, Why Scrum? Why Iterative? Why incremental?
• Scrum Values (6%): What is Scrum? What are five core values of Scrum?
• Scrum Team (20%): Why Self Organizing? Why cross-functional? Responsibilities and Characteristics of Scrum Master, Scrum Development team and scrum product owner
• Scrum Master (22%): Services to Product Owner, Development team, Organization, Servant Leader, Coach, Mentor, Resolve impediments
• Scrum Events (20%): Characteristics, role and purpose: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives?
• Scrum Artifacts (20%): Characteristics, Purpose, Identification: Product Backlog, Sprint backlog, Product Increment, Definition of done, Understanding importance of transparency of artifacts to evaluate value and risk

The Scrum 5 values: Courage, Commitment, Focus, Openness, and Respect.